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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. SEYMOUR, of Bristol, county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Covering for Buildings; and I do hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following specification and drawings so as to enable others skilledvi/n the art to make and use the same. j l

I will therefore proceed to describe it by referring to the drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the figures.

The nature of this improvement will be distinctly understood from the specification and drawings. The object desired to be attained thereby is to provide a. covering lwhich Will eifectually protect from incursion of rain, tc., at a great reduction in the cost of labor andmaterial, and at .the same time will-be more convenient for use. It consists in providing sound boards with square or matched-edges, as may be desirable, and in forming grooves in the face or outside thereof` at a proper distance and depth from the (joint) edges for the purpose of receiving the edges of a vegetable-or metallic cap, by the use of which, when placed over the joint and into the grooves, (formed in the boards just each side of the joint,) will. render the joint impervious to rain, Ste. In the accomL panying drawings- I Figure 1 is a section perspective view of the covering having a tongue-and-groove joint.

Figure 2 shows a perspective section view of the covering having a square-edge joint.

a are the boards; b are the tongue-and-groove joints; c is the square-edge joint; cl is the vegetable or metallic cap; e are grooves formed inthe outside and near the edges of the boards in which to receive the edges of the cap d. This cap may be made with one or two (square, or nearly so) angles. The grooves e may be formed very rapidly in the boards by a circular saw in the common way.

In this Way I am enabled to producea cheap and durable covering that will eifectually protect from the inelemency of the weather7 and is especially' adapted for temporary buildings, where it is desirable to use them for a. limited time and then be removed. I .have thus endeavored vto show the nature, construction, and advantage of lthis improvement.

I claim the employment of the Asshape metal piece d, when inserted into grooves formed in the upper side and near the edge of the board a, when said grooves are formed about an angle oi' forty-five degrees, substantially as and for the purpose described.

HENRY A. SEYMOUR. [1.. 5.]

Witnesses:

W. H. Nicr'rne'ron, BENI. F. HAWLEY. 

